Honda Civic metallic silver

Hi guys, this is an intermediate detail on a 2 years old Honda Civic in metallic silver. The process started with removing some dried polish residue on the front windscreen trim. Meguiar’s All Purpose Cleaner(4:1) was used together with their Triple Duty Brush.




The wheels were cleaned with the following:

Wheels - Meguiar's Wheel Brightener (4:1)
Tires - Meguiar's Super Degreaser (4:1)
Wheel Wells - Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner (4:1)

As the car was quite clean, I skipped the pre-soak and pressure washer rinse, and proceeded to wash the car straight away with the two bucket method and Meguiar’s Hyper Wash as shampoo. As you can see below the bucket on the left was the rinse water bucket, it still looks quite clear after washing the whole car.



Osren’s tar remover is sprayed on the front and rear bumpers and near the fenders, it was left to dwell and wiped off.



Whole car is clayed with Perma Glass No.2 Clay, and also, not much contaminants on the car. This is most probably due to the owner wiping down the car everyday with water, and contaminants don’t have time to bond to the paint.



Pad and polish combo of choice was,



Two areas on both front doors below the side mirror had watermark etchings, which couldn’t be removed with the pad and polish combo above. You can faintly see it in the picture below but it’s more visible in person.



So I used Meguiar’s #83 Dual-Action Cleaner/Polish on a foam pad and worked it in by hand until the watermark etchings were removed. This of course left it’s own straight line marring as seen below.




The marring is then removed with the same machine polishing step.



After polishing the whole car, I realized that not only the front windscreen trim had dried polish residue, almost every edge has them.



So I went around the car wiping them off with a damp microfiber cloth. This is followed by detailing the “I’m V-Kool” badge, which also had dried polish residue.

Meguiar’s Last Touch and Triple Duty Brush was very helpful and removed them with ease.





Then Meguiar’s #21 Synthetic Sealant(M21) is applied via ROB and a W-9006 Finishing Pad. While waiting for it to dry, the interior is detailed
• Vacuumed
• Plastics and vinyl wiped down with Meguiar’s Quik Interior Detailer
• Glass cleaned with Detailer line Glass Cleaner Concentrate
• Door jambs wiped down and waxed with M21
• Pedals cleaned with APC



M21 is then buffed off, while allowing the solvents to evaporate a little bit more, the tyre valve caps were cleaned because they had *yup you guessed it!* dried polish residue on them.

Cleaned with APC(10:1) and the Triple Duty Brush.



Meguiar’s #16 Professional Paste Wax applied by hand.



Plastic trim dressed with Meguiar’s #40 Vinyl/Rubber Cleaner & Conditioner.
Wheels waxed with M21.
Tires and wheel wells dressed with Meguiar’s Hyper Dressing(2:1).
Tail pipes polished with Meguiar’s NXT All Metal Polysh..

Afters



Pardon the dripping Hyper Dressing. ><”









Thanks for looking :) Feel free to comment or email if there are any questions.

Next detail will be a White Nissan Latio(intermediate detail), stay tuned. Read more!

Honda Civic metallic light blue

Here is an intermediate detail of a light blue Honda Civic. The car was dropped off at 7.30am and it was raining, I waited for the wheels to cool off while I prepared my stuff.

A picture of the car before anything was done.




The wash process began by cleaning the wheels, wheel wells and tires. Meguiar’s Super Degreaser(4:1) was used one the rims and tires, Meguiar’s All Purpose Cleaner(4:1) for the wheel wells.

A pre-wash soak using Meguiar’s Hyper Wash is then followed by a high pressure rinse to remove any loose contaminants. This was followed by a two-bucket wash using the same shampoo.



Osren Tar Remover was sprayed on the lower half of the car and was left for a few minutes before being wiped off.



Perma Glass No.2 Clay was used using diluted Meguiar’s Shampoo Plus as clay lubricant.





The car is re-washed and dried.

Menzerna 106FF with Meguiar’s W-9006 finishing pad via RB @ 600-900-600rpms was the polish/pad combo used.

After the polishing step, the owner’s own last step product was used.



Applied using the ROB and a W-9006 finishing pad as well.

While waiting for the wax to dry, exterior plastic and vinyl are dressed with Meguiar’s #40 Vinyl & Rubber cleaner/conditioner.



The already clean engine was wiped down with a damp cloth and reachable plastics, rubber and vinyl was dressed.



Meguiar’s NXT All Metal Polysh was used on the exhaust tips.



Then the plastics in the wheel wells as well as the tires were dressed with Meguiar’s All Season Dressing and rims sealed with Meguiar’s #21 Synthetic Sealant.



The interior was already fairly clean, so no pictures of it. It was vacuumed, vinyls and plastics wiped down with Meguiar’s Quik Interior Detailer, pedals cleaned with All Purpose Cleaner, glass cleaned with Detailer line Glass Cleaner Concentrate, door jambs wiped down and sealed with M21.

PlastX applied to the headlamps.

The SmartWax is then buffed off and below are the results. Apologies as it was still raining that time so only indoor pictures.













Thanks for looking =) Comments are most welcomed.

P.S: Thanks Zey for the referral! Read more!

Announcement: Commercial Detailing Services Discontinued

I am discontinuing my detailing services for the public because I could not fit all the requests into my schedule. This is also my final year and a half for my Bachelor of Business and Commerce degree and would prefer to have more time for it.

I want to thank those who have inquired for my services, they are very supportive and encouraging for me. Also to the owners of the cars which I have detailed, thank you for the great opportunity, each car helped me improve my technique.

I will occasionally detail cars that belong to relatives and close friends or special requests if the time fits. There will still be write-ups posted on this blog from time to time.

Thank You Read more!

Toyota Vios Metallic Black

I have about 9 hours for this car, and have to correct the paint as best as I could in that time.

Process as follow:

Cleaning

• Clean wheel face, tire and wheel well with Meguiar’s All Purpose Cleaner
• Pre-wash soak with Meguiar’s Hyper Wash
• Rinse at high pressure
• Wash with Meguiar’s Hyper Wash
• Ambersil Tar Remover wipe down on bumpers and lower panels of car
• Rinse, Clay with Perma Glass No.2 Clay using diluted Shampoo Plus as Clay lube.
• Re-wash

Polishing

• Meguiar’s #83 dual-action cleaner/polish with W-8006 polishing pad @ 1500 rpms
• Menzerna 106FF with W-9006 finishing pad @ 900 rpms

Protection

• Meguiar’s #21 Synthetic Sealant
• Meguiar’s #16 Paste Wax

Trim

• Dress plastic and rubber trim with Autoglym Bumper Care
• Polish exhaust and chrome grill with Meguiar’s NXT All Metal Polysh




















Here is a picture of a repainted door, which paint was much harder than the original paint. The defects would’ve to be compounded away but I only had limited time, so had to do with the following result. =(



Here are the after pictures, right after polishing and a coat of M21. The sun was going down, so I quickly took some shots before it went dark. Please pardon the undressed tire and some droplets of water on the car as it drizzled shortly after.







Lesson learned during this detail : I have to pay more to attention to detail as the owner pointed out some parts that I missed when he collected the car, in tight areas especially where the foam pad during machine polishing wouldn’t reach.

Thanks for looking and Happy Chinese New Year! =)

No more details for now as I have my exam soon. Next details would be after CNY. Read more!